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rĕtĭcentĭa , ae, f. reticeo,
I.a keeping silent, silence (rare but good prose): “quid taces? enicas me miserum tuā reticentiā,” Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 52; Pac. ap. Non. 1, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 94 Rib.): “posterorum,” Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33: “a jurisconsultis etiam reticentiae poena est constituta (viz. as to a defect in a thing sold),” id. Off. 3, 16, 65.—
II. In rhetor.,= aposiopesis, a pause in the midst of a speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; Quint. 9, 1, 31; 9, 2, 54; 57.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Philippics, 14.12.33
    • Plautus, Mercator, 5.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.53
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 1.31
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.54
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.57
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